DESCRIPTION Ark is a program for managing various
archive formats within the KDE environment. Archives can be
viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The
program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2,
zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are
installed). Ark can work closely with Konqueror in the KDE
environment to handle archives, if you install the Konqueror
Integration plugin available in the kdeaddons package.

OPTIONS --extract Open extract dialog, quit when
finished

--extract-to folder archive Extract archive to folder.
Quit when finished. folder will be created if it does not
exist.

--add files Ask for the name of the archive to add files
to. Quit when fin- ished.

--add-to files archive Add files to archive. Quit when
finished. archive will be creat- ed if it does not
exist.

--guess-name folder archive Used with --extract-to. When
specified, archive will be extract- ed to a subfolder of
folder whose name will be the name of archive without the
filename extension.

ENVIRONMENT $PATH The commandline programs to deal with
the archives you wish to handle in Ark must be available in
your $PATH.

EXAMPLES ark --extract-to --guess-name .
An-Archive.tar.bz2 Will extract An-Archive.tar.bz2 into a
folder named An-Archive in the current directory.

ark --add-to *.jpg pictures.tar.bz2 Add all files ending
in *.jpg to an archive named pic- tures.tar.bz2, creating it
if it doesnt already exist.

SEE ALSO tar(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zip(1), rar(1),
lha(1)

More detailed user documentation is available from
help:/ark (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run
khelpcenter help:/ark).